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Volume 12, Issue 7February 2010

Features

Extreme Dreams, Extreme Dance

Canadian-born dancer and choreographer Melissa Williams propelled herself into the commercial dance scene in Los Angeles at a young age. Judge on So You Think You Can Dance Canada and director of a touring dance convention, she now lives in Ontario with her musician husband and two children.

Dance as Therapy

Is dance inherently therapeutic? What is dance/movement therapy? When do dancers become therapists? Distinguishing between therapeutic outcomes of dance experiences and dance as therapy, Barker examines the history and practice of dance/movement therapy in Canada.

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Themes of becoming, shaping from and returning to are central to Caribbean performance arts. As one of these art forms, Carnival is a nuanced performance art practice rooted in the cultural memory of the lives of Caribbean peoples throughout Canada and the diaspora. But whose story is told (or not told) and in what context? The telling or omission of stories can be traced to a lack of understanding of the complexity of the Caribbean and its Carnival – a performance tradition that is more than the mass commodification, sexuality and “loud music” we often associate it with.